Plastic in pharmaceuticals - that's the backside of using plastics.These small particals used are showing up in water and are going into the food chain with unknown results, like pesticides, hormones and other stuff harming our health.

Good call out to It's a Wonderfull Life, BWmetz. It's nearly my favorite movie. I even saw it as a play last Christmas season. Great story, and yes, Sam did end up rich. But then we always knew he would amount to something.

Thanks Richard for providing and informing us about different applications of plastic . No doubt plastic has limitless applications , it is used in packaging , automobile manufacturing ,construction , electronic devices, medicines, pharmaceuticals and many more . On the top of it these days as we know that 3d printing is developing one major use of plastic has emerged from this 3d printing as well.

Actually the Sam Wainwright character in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1947) talks about soybean plastics to Jimmy Stewart and I believe the movie goes on to mention that Sam made a fortune making airplane canopies during WWII. I believe that there is even speculation that the Graduate scene is an homage to this earlier movie. If you haven't seen this Jimmy Stewart classic, it's a great one for the family at Christmas.

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